Bug#758116: tasksel: Allow to select Blends selection during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Package: tasksel
Version: 3.14.1
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i


Hi,

beeing inspired by bug #758096 (I was asked to separate this topic from
the topic of this bug) and the recent discussion on Blends list, I'd
like to add a pointer to the thread basically starting here:

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2014/08/msg00004.html
 
Currently we can provide tasksel control files in the following
Blends (packages):

   Debian Edu     (edu-tasks)
   Debian Games   (games-tasks)
   Debian GIS     (gis-tasks)
   Debian Junior  (junior-tasks)
   Debian Med     (med-tasks)
   Debian Science (science-tasks)
   DebiChem       (debichem-tasks)

The packages contain a file

   /usr/share/tasksel/descs/<blendname>-tasks.desc

and the usual stuff in /usr/share/doc/<pkgname> but nothing else.  They
are exclusively designed as tasksel input.

IMHO it would do a nice service to our users to promote these topics on
our installers at the time when tasks will be selected.

Kind regards

       Andreas.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii  apt                     0.9.7.9+deb7u2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.49
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.05-7+b1
ii  perl-base               5.14.2-21+deb7u1
ii  tasksel-data            3.14.1

tasksel recommends no packages.

tasksel suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded